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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 21
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Danish Hitman takes aim at Hollywood
The Danish computer game Hitman looks to be the next hit game to get the Hollywood treatment. The game's international distributor EIDOS is currently negotiating with unnamed Hollywood studios - although it has an existing relationship with Paramount for the Tomb Raider franchise. The Danish developers at IO Interactive have ...
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Open Hearts, Facing The Truth win Danish Academy Awards
At the Danish Film Academy's 20th ROBERT award ceremony on Sunday night in Copenhagen, Susanne Bier's Dogme-hit Open Hearts and veteran Nils Malmros' Facing The Truth fought it out for the top awards, while Ole Bornedal's I Am Dina dominated the technical prizes. The ceremony was attended by 650 industry ...
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Noi The Albino sweeps Goteborg
Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's Noi The Albino dominated the awards at the Göteborg film festival in Sweden.The closing ceremony for Sweden's 26th film festival in Göteborg was Icelandic newcomer Dagur Kari's night, when his feature debut Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi) took top honours including the Nordic Film Award, ...
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The Station Agent
Dir: Tom McCarthy. 2002. US. 90minsAs often at Sundance, the real winners are to be found among the recipients of the audience award and not the Grand Jury Prize. This year was no exception as newcomer Tom McCarthy's crowd-pleaser, The Station Agent, proved the talk of Park City all week, ...
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Danish Film Institute backs four films
The Danish Film Institute has backed three new Danish films as well as a Danish co-production. Shooting from late April is Anders Ronnow Klarlund's puppet tale Strings. It tells the story of royal heir Hal Tara, who goes in search of his father's murderer, but end up discovering the truth ...
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Thirteen
Dir: Catherine Hardwicke. US. 2002. 100minsAn impressive directorial debut by established production designer Catherine Hardwicke (Vanilla Sky), Thirteen offers a glimpse into the sex-and-drug realities of life as a teenage girl in LA. The film is particularly disquieting as it is based on both the screenplay and experiences of a ...
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Kaurismaki sweeps local Finnish awards
Aki Kaurismaki swept all but a few of the local Finnish film Jussi awards on Sunday night in Helsinki. The Man Without A Past picked up Best Film, Best Direction and Best Script all for Kaurismaki himself, as well as Best Actress for Kati Outinen, Best Cinematography for Timo Salminen ...
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Zentropa pulls plug on internet outfit Tvropa
The dotcom ambitions of the low-budget mavericks at Denmark's Zentropa have finally hit the rocks.Internet outfit Tvropa filed for insolvency over Christmas after Zentropa and other investors had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the company, which launched in 2000 with plans to webcast 3-4 minute programmes about movies, ...
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...while Okay and Open Hearts dominate Danish Oscar nominations
Susanne Bier's Dogme hit Open Hearts and Jesper W. Nielsen's Okay both scooped nine nominations for the Danish Oscars, the 20th Robert Film AwardsThe Danish Film Academy's nominations for Open Hearts include best film, best director, best actor (Mads Mikkelsen), best actress (Sonja Richter) as well as three best supporting ...
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Danish stars line up for Nielsen's Bouncer
Denmark's two most internationally recognised actors, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Iben Hjejle, have signed up to star in Jesper W. Nielsen's drama The Bouncer (Loeftet), which starts shooting in Copenhagen Jan13.Writer-director Nielsen collaborated with Anker Li on the script, which is inspired by a true story and follows Svend (Waldau) ...
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Third Danish film confirmed for Berlin's Kinderfilmfest
Danish animator Jannik Hastrup's latest feature-length animation, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), has become the third Danish film to be confirmed for the Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest. The film had its world premiere in France and Benelux on Dec 18 as L'enfant Qui ...
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Kaurismaki tops Finnish award nominations
Aki Kaurismaki can no longer be said to be an unrecognised filmmaker in his native Finland after his award-winning The Man Without A Past became his most successful film at the local box-office ever and picked up the highest number of nominations for the local film awards: the Jussi. Best ...
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Denmark's Ole Bornedal joins Thura Film
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal has joined long-time collaborator Michael Obel's Thura Film, which was behind his debut hit thriller Nattevagten in 1994. The duo also made the English-language version for Miramax with Ewan McGregor and Nick Nolte in 1998, and worked in the US together for a while. Bornedal's position ...
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Copenhagen Film Festival sets launch date
After juggling with different launch dates for months the new Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) has set the date for its first edition, Aug13-20 2003. Festival director Janne Giese sees the event as the next obvious step after the success of Danish film in recent years. "It is a patchwork ...
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Four new Nordic children's films head for Berlin
Scandinavian children's films have always been well represented at Berlin International Film Festival's Kinderfilmfest, and next year's first edition under it's new headmaster, Thomas Hailer, will be no exception The 2003 edition will see the international premieres of four new children's films -all of which are feature debuts. Henrik ...
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Norwegian Film Fund backs Play, Bum's Rush
The Norwegian Film Fund has invested in two new feature films, the Norwegian Play and Scottish/Norwegian The Bum's Rush, with $276,000 (NKR2m) and $317,000 (NKR2.3m) respectively. John Sullivan wrote and directed the $468,000 Play for Dinamo Story and producers Tomas Backstrom, Tom Remlov and Gard A. Andreassen. It tells the ...
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Denmark's Zentropa returns to quality porn
Denmark's mavericks at Zentropa are about to revive their ambitions of making quality porn for women. The new $135,000 (DKK1m) film, All About Anna will, however, be produced through Innocent Pictures, which replaced Zentropa's Puzzy Power label in 2001. Now headed by CEO Claus Sorensen and creative producer Nicolas Barbano, ...
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Svensk Filmindustri gets first look on Early Bird output
Nordic media major Svensk Filmindustri has signed a first look deal with the Danish-Swedish production outfit Early Bird Films. Svensk Filmindustri will have first look on distribution and possible co-production opportunities on every new Early Bird project aimed at the Nordic market. Early Bird Films operates out of Copenhagen and ...
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Danish production companies unite for $13m, five-feature slate
Two Danish production outfits Easy Film and ASA Film have joined forces to produce their future projects in collaboration. The companies have secured backing from distributor Scanbox for the development of five new features, of which they aim to produce two a year. Scanbox takes Scandinavian rights and will distribute ...
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Danish animation gets French world premiere
Danish animator Jannik Hastrup will give his new feature-length animated film, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), its world premiere in France and Benelux on Dec18 as L'enfant Qui Voulait Etre Un Ours. French distributor Gebeka will release it on 100 screens ...